good rock'n'roll

João Teotónio is a Portuguese composer, musician and singer. These are two songs from his last album "Wired".

Annahstasia Enuke

Ladies and Gentlemen, from Los Angeles, the incredible Annahstasia.

Stress Test


Saturday


Slow (feat. Obongjayar)

hot air balloon

Originally a duo with Portuguese guitarist Tiago Machado and Irish singer Sarah-Jane Burkeis, HOT AIR BALLOON is a band formed in Guimarães, in northern Portugal. Here are presented two songs about loss and a relationship at risk, from their most recent album, Come This Far.

Keep me Going


Come This Far

forever singing the pain

And even the loneliness that has been sung about. By so many generations before me.
Through my distorted voice. I will take it to the end.

And yup, sometimes (very few) I watch TV...

Deep Sea Diver - Let Me Go

These artists are virtually unknown in Europe. And when I first heard this excellent song, I thought the style sounded very similar to Sharon Van Etten... Maybe it is just this song... Curiously, Jessica Dobson and her band Deep Sea Diver started their career by 2007, as Sharon.  Madison Cunningham is younger, but as been on the road for 10 years already.

New from Spoon

Spoon - "Guess I'm Fallin In Love"

Patrick Watson and Charlotte Cardin

Gordon in the Willows.
From the forthcoming album "Uh Oh", to be released next September 26, 2025.


And a wonderful concert in the snow, singing: The Great Escape, Gordon in the Willows (again), Melody Noir, Next to You, Je te laisserai des mots. Enjoy :)

smalltown boy

Kingston Sound System just released an album today that remakes classics from the '70s, '80s, and '90s. Like this Bronski Beat song from 1984, using Jimmy Somerville's original vocal recording.

Sara Correia. From the people to the people

Sara Correia is a young Portuguese singer of Fado, the urban traditional genre of song of Lisbon.
Fado are mostly soulful songs and were originally created centuries ago by a mixture of local musicians and Portuguese Guitar players with local communities of immigrants, mixing their soulful songs with Portuguese guitars.  
Sara Correia is precisely a descendent from those communities, growing up and living in one of "people's neighbourhoods", Chelas.
Now, that she is a famous artist, she decided to thank her neighbours and friends, giving them a free concert.
Here's her song of proud of her origins: "I come from my neighborhood, from my window I count the stars (estrelas/stellas). I'm not from anywhere else, I'm from Chelas."


And now, Sara expressing her gratitude to her most important reference, Amália Rodrigues.  

the wandering

Patrick Watson and MARO.




Woke up a bit slowly feeling a bit lonely . But here we are . Got a nowhere kinda fever like melancholy’s a-dreaming . And that’s my favourite kind of feeling . Don’t know where we’re going . Don’t know where we’ve been . It’s that strange kind of wind again.

Your feet are a hanging off of this train dreaming . Up the world walking by . Wandered through the strangers . Too quick for them to notice . Who you are . I don’t know anybody . And no one knows me . I could be anything . And you're my favourite company . You and I in disguise watching the world . Wonder by . Aaaaaah

We went everywhere . We went everywhere.

Four of spades pulls up in her car . And I’m standing outside the bar . She says get in we’re gonna drive drive too far.
Wrapped in my foreign heart . I don’t know where we are . Can’t remember my name . And she feels the same . And know we’ll be sad . At the end of the road . We don’t want this conversation to end anymore.
Don’t know where we’re going . Don’t know where we have been .
Since we were young . Partes de mim deixo onde vou . And the hills were on fire . São tantas as vezes que esqueço o que sou . Ou onde estou agora . Everything sang to me . Ai, eu já não sei se quero ir embora . Ou se quero ficar . We went everywhere . We went everywhere . Ou se quero ficar . Aaaaaaah

I feel your pain

You're also dying. You're also safe.

Caspian Tiger by Beirut, from the album A Study of Losses, released on April 18, 2025.

Vino Dragostea

Sofia Leão, only 18 years old, is a Portuguese composer and musician and daughter of our known Rodrigo Leão. She released her 1st album "Mar" (Sea) one month ago. Most songs are sung in Portuguese, one in English and this one, in Italian, Vino Dragostea, a very nice song, kinda old traditional troubadour song about some loose ideas like: Dragostea Wine, weak current of Satan, you go with this current ... The sea embraces the moon, the moon embraces the sea ... and you depend on yourself.

Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory

Full Performance, KCRW Live.
A masterpiece. Hard to tell which songs I prefere:
Live Forever, Afterlife, Idiot Box, Trouble, I Can't Imagine (Why You Feel This Way), Somethin' Ain't Right, Southern Life (What It Must Be Like), Fading Beauty, I Want You Here.

Violet ornaments

Ornatos Violeta. Live, Oeiras 2025-06-14.


Coisas (Things). It's just things. I'm fine. Almost so fine. See how good it is to live again.


Dia Mau (Bad Day). The bitter taste of loneliness! It's just another bad, bad, day.

Ana Moura

Ana Moura is a Portuguese singer of the music genre Fado. She is related to Africa and its culture due to her parents living in Angola and to her African grandmother Guilhermina. Casa Guilhermina, is the title of Ana Moura's last album where she embraces all her ancestral cultures with some mix of new urban rhythms. Here's some videos I recorded from her last concert, 3 days ago.

To America and to the Moon

Os Azeitonas (The Olives) is a band from Porto, Portugal. This song, entirely composed by Miguel Araújo, is their biggest success. It's a love song about a boy promising his girlfriend, he's gonna sell his guitar to take her to America and to the Moon, and other things. Amazing :)
This is my video recording made a few hours ago. Enjoy :)

Psycho Killer, 50 years

... plus one.
Psycho Killer was 1stly performed live in 1974 by the band Artistics, which became the Talking Heads.
Supposedly, Talking Heads 1st live show in CBGB, happened precisely 50 years ago, on 5th of June 1975.
And so, the Talking Heads just released a video commemorating that ... fact. The video shows a disturbed woman in her daily life.

And now, one of the some (3?) Talking Heads performances in CBGB on 1975.

ouros

"Era do Ouro" (golden age) Samuel Úria, Portugal, 2025.

Beth Gibbons at Tiny Desk

SOOOOO beautiful!

Panda Bear on Tiny Desk

Noah Benjamin Lennox or "Panda Bear", born in USA, is long ago "refugee" in Lisbon (Portugal, Europe) where he raised a family and where he works with the help of many local musicians. Here, he performs at the Tiny Desk with some of his musician friends.
Songs: Ferry Lady and Defense from the new album Sinister Grift. And Song for Ariel released in 2007.